Fig. 1From: Assessing two methods for estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated dataAge-specific ratio ∆m/m of the excess mortality (∆m) and the general mortality (m). The graph shows the empirical median of ∆m/m with 95% confidence bounds (vertical bars) based on the probabilistic sensitivity analysis with 5000 simulation runs. The ratio ∆m/m is a lower bound for the mortality rate ratio RBack to article page